I’m pretty excited about Tim Burton’s upcoming MOMA exhibit (I love his aesthetic sensibilities). The museum has released a new promo video:
The exhibit begins November 22nd and runs through April 26th.
Anyone else plan on going?
Category: sculpture
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Audrey Flack’s work makes me feel like my eyeballs have just had an invigorating massage. Let’s start with some of her gorgeous still life dye transfer photographs (this is definitely a technique I have to explore further due to its incredible richness and depth).
Perhaps I love her work because she uses the kind of subject matter that clutters the surfaces of my own home. These are very reminiscent of my own collections…
She also does photo-realistic painting. I want to either eat or play with everything she paints…
Mmmm…shiny things…
Last but not least, we have sculpture.
See more of her lovely work here.
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Tom Deininger’s art and sculptures made from “recycled” items are impressive. Take for example, this bunny made of unraveled cigarette filters:
And another cigarette creation:
Here is an American flag, constructed of kitschy found objects. Cultural commentary, perhaps?
Found object color fade:
And one of my very favorites, where “a light box was built to illuminate a butterfly made from chainstore plastic bags. Sale stickers were used to block out light and caution tape to create a background.”
See more here.
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I’m digging the sculptures on The Runny Bunny’s Etsy site.
Made to order from slip cast molds, these customizable chimeras are sure to catch the eye of your visitors (and most likely evoke a slightly bewildered expression).
Ever since I posted about the Victorian TV Heads, I’ve had the odd urge to cobble together mismatched creatures. Unfortunately, my favorite supply source for vintage tchotchkes to use for such purposes just shut down with very little advanced notice (RIP, Northern Thrift).
See more here.
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This automaton self-portrait by Thomas Kuntz, hand crafted from brass, steel and wood is a creepy masterpiece. Watch his head get severed and resurrected in this autobiographical cult allegory, Automaton: Death + Resurrection: In the Chamber of Reflection.
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In 2002, artist/sculptor Olaf Breuning did a garden installation that included dozens of skeletons in various positions of repose and play.
These skeletons seem to be enjoying death more than most people enjoy life. It makes me absolutely joyful to look at them.
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The Shadow Farm makes fantastic eerie creatures, perfect for the Halloween season.
Look at this guy! Isn’t he amazing?
Aww…he’s grumpy.
But here’s a mirthful little fellow:
See more on The Shadow Farm site.
Found here
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Damien Hirst, whom I’ve posted about here, certainly has an impressive body of (often controversial) work.
The Child’s Dream, is currently making its UK debut at the Tate St. Ives gallery as part of The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art exhibition.
The Dream:
Broken dream:
I’m terribly sorry, unicorn lovers. I didn’t mean to drown your childhood dreams in formaldehyde. I just find the installation rather captivating.
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Modern franchised theme restaurants can’t hold a proverbial candle to what may have been the first restaurant of its type.
A hot spot called Hell’s Café lured 19th-century Parisians to the city’s Montmartre neighborhood—like the Marais—on the Right Bank of the Seine. With plaster lost souls writhing on its walls and a bug-eyed devil’s head for a front door, le Café de l’Enfer may have been one of the world’s first theme restaurants. According to one 1899 visitor, the café’s doorman—in a Satan suit—welcomed diners with the greeting, “Enter and be damned!” Hell’s waiters also dressed as devils. An order for three black coffees spiked with cognac was shrieked back to the kitchen as: “Three seething bumpers of molten sins, with a dash of brimstone intensifier!”
How in the world can I be impressed with an old baseball bat on the wall at TGIFriday’s when Hell’s Cafe had writhing lost souls on the walls?
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This series of sculptures caught my eye recently (it’s almost fitting for a Halloween post!).
The unusual spiritual visions of an Irishman were created in stone by craftsmen in Mahabalipuram, India, and now populate a sculpture park in County Wicklow, Ireland.
On 22 acres of grounds, the park includes a series of dancing Ganesh figures, Shiva and other Hindu deities. It also includes more bizarre sculptures of a skeletal Buddha-like figure, an enormous disembodied finger, and a sculpture called “The Split Man” which shows a figure ripping itself in two, representing “the mental state of the dysfunctional human”.
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